It's Official...

Travis and I are buying a house (I started writing this post before I wrote the last one, so most of you already know)!!!  Ever since moving to our new place, we have toyed around with the idea of actually buying a home rather than renting.  Since our lease will be ending in just a few months, we thought it was time to start thinking more seriously about it and start looking.  We walked through lots of homes and looked at another hundred online.  We have spent our Saturdays driving around and peeping into empty homes.  We finally got it narrowed down to two options.  One house was located close to our old apartment and the other is close to where we are now.

The first house is a huge, bank owned home so it was a great price.  We went and looked at it and it was in pretty good condition (besides being dirty), especially for it being bank owned.  We saw some pretty trashed homes throughout our search.  The only thing holding us back was some of the damage.  It looked like mold on the ceiling in the living room and water damage in the kitchen.  We were wary because this could only lead to bigger, unseen problems.

The second house I fell in love with was the model home for Ryan homes development.  Unfortunately, it was $260,000...not a great price and WAAAYY out of our budget.  We tried figuring out a way to get the price down, but we would have 0 upgrades so the house would be totally different than the loved model.  We began to look at other floor plans and found one for a great price with great incentives.  The agent told us there was a model being built in Beavercreek so we decided to take a look.

As soon as I walked in the home, I knew it was the one.  As compared to the other home where I just felt stressed, I felt so happy as soon as I walked in the door in this one.  I have to remind you that it was just dry wall so my mind wasn't clouded by all the fancy interior design elements.  I loved the floorplan!  Travis loved the basement!

This was our house so we scheduled to meet with an agent to go over pricing and options.   Everything has happened so fast! Let me give you an idea here.  November 24th is when we walked through the model and knew it was our house.  November 27th we met with the agent, Kellie, to initially go over options and pricing.  At that meeting, she let us know that prices on this particular floor plan were going up December 1st.  We had to make a decision and do it fast!

November 30th we met again with Kellie to edit/finalize our option list and sign a contract.  I was excited from the beginning, but Travis was a little stressed because of it being such a big and quick decision.  Now he is just as excited as I am.

Ever since this meeting, we have been meeting with everyone involved in the process.  It is so crazy how much goes into building a house.  That has been our life the past couple weeks.  It is so fun/exciting, but stressful at times. 

I will post more as we go and as we get pictures.  We have met with the loan officer, finalized our exterior look and structural elements and picked out our flooring and counters. This week we are meeting with Guardian to do our cable stuff.  It is so much fun and I am sooooo excited!  I can't wait for this beautiful home to be built!